The Creative Hub – Writing Courses in Auckland

The Creative Hub – Writing Courses in Auckland

The Creative Hub provides a variety of writing courses, taught by some of New Zealand’s leading writers and teachers of writing. Located on Auckland’s beautiful Princes Wharf, we offer a stunning location in which to have fun and learn new skills. We aspire to the highest standards of excellence, while preserving the sense of fun in exploring your own creativity. Our tutors and workshops leaders include well-known authors Tessa Duder, Paula Morris, Graham Reid, Yvonne Van Dongen, Roger Hall, Sarah Laing, John Cranna and former Penguin publisher Geoff Walker. The Creative Hub was founded in March 2010 and is New Zealand’s first writing centre run entirely by professional authors and editors

Was Orwell on to something?

Just finished 1984.  Yes, I know, it’s taken me 31 years to read it, but whatevs.

So, in the speculative story, the collective memory of the people is tampered with manually by the state and truth is manipulated. With the digital revolution on our doorstep, we are edging closer to the digitization of our entire collective memory. How easy would it be to tamper with?

I mean, I go back and edit tweets. Come on, we’ve all done it.

What do you think?

So pretty soon all our data (and I mean all of it) will be in the clouds (cloud computing), meaning it will be held on a server somewhere with an unknwon SYSADMIN responsible for it…who knows what could happen, or what may be revealed…Web 3.0 is the data web btw (the guy who invented the web talks about it on TED).

Vewy interwesting..

I’d be keen to know your thoughts.

Also, I am obsessed with dystopian fiction at the mo and have my own young adult’s novel on the go…any suggestions for the reading list?

Anna

Also, take a look at the video here and the link below to see the end of the book as we know it (well the beginning of something new anyway)

www.kiwamedia.com